Date: Sat, 08 Jul 2000 10:08:10 -0600 From: Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com> To: Nick Rogness <nick@rapidnet.com> Cc: "Louis A. Mamakos" <louie@TransSys.COM>, Narvi <narvi@haldjas.folklore.ee>, Sean Lutner <sean@rentul.net>, Nick Evans <nevans@nextvenue.com>, "'freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org'" <freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG>, "'freebsd-net@freebsd.org'" <freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: bridging Message-ID: <396751EA.F7EF2EC6@softweyr.com> References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0007071523590.78571-100000@rapidnet.com>
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Nick Rogness wrote: > > On Fri, 7 Jul 2000, Louis A. Mamakos wrote: > > > They can't be in the same collision domain -- the only way to do that > > is to have an Ethernet repeater which repeats bit by bit fron one > > segment to another, and propagating a collision on one segment as a > > jam on another. > > > > On a FreeBSD box, where you interfaces to ethernet segments are NIC > > cards, you can't get your hands on the ethernet frame until the > > NIC has received it completely. Thus, you don't have to opportunity > > to act as a repeater (not that you'd want to anyway) to have a > > single collision domain. > > You know, you are right...never thought it > through completely before I sent my reply. Sorry > everyone for the wasted bandwidth. > > Have 1 more question (has to do with this bridging deal): > > Anyone working on load-sharing/load-balancing or clustering > network solution with FreeBSD? Eddieware? http://www.eddieware.org/ IIRC. -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC wes@softweyr.com http://softweyr.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message
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